Clever Corvids: unique beaks for tool use (Introduction)

by BBella , Sunday, March 20, 2016, 02:53 (3171 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: The same applies to all innovations: the cell communities must cooperate, whether programmed to do so by your God or making their own autonomous decisions.
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> Now you are telling me those 'cell communities' 'know' they must cooperate. Really? What instructs them?-Thoughts your question provoked:-"What instructs them?" The intelligence and wisdom gained through millions of years of evolution instructs them! Is that not enough to give one bird the creative, innovative intelligence to tie a knot? Some-thing IS instructing every-thing to be what it is and do what it does. We all agree, the some-thing that instructs/directs all living things has to be very wise and intelligent and must permeate all living entities. So, what ever "It" is has to be quite old (if not eternal) which means "it" has plenty of experience and memory about what works and what doesn't work. It displays itself through an intangible, immutable source we call consciousness that although it may always be intelligent, it shows signs of learning. Does this intelligence radiate from one point or from many? Did this intelligence begin as one or as many? -Whether intelligence has always been, or was sparked in one moment in a speck of light and matter connection before time began, or created all that IS or is All that Is, regardless - there should be no doubt, that when we look at what has been created and creations capabilities, that intelligence is definitely on a learning curve. Experience is every-thing. Without the memory of these experiences nothing exists to learn more. Intelligence learns and experiences and every thing benefits from it because everything is connected by intelligence. -Whether there was/is ONE intelligent being conducting/experiencing this experiment or many - does it really matter when we are ALL together in the midst of this great creative learning curve of transmutation of mind, emotions and matter? Whether it's only ONE mind watching all that IS, or All minds watching - we are all a-changing into the unknown.